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The best long-term real estate investment: Farmland
- CNBC
- 24 Mar 2014
As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.
Olam boosts rice farming
- This Day
- 24 Mar 2014
Olam's Nigerian subsidiary has completed arrangements to expand its rice plantation in Nasarawa State from 3,000 ha to 6,000 ha.
Philippines: Malaysian firm to turn land around Maguindanao massacre site into plantation
- Inquirer
- 22 Mar 2014
Univex will invest $10 million to convert lands around the site of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre into a banana plantation and agricultural complex
Is Liberia's president going cold on the palm oil industry?
- Reuters
- 21 Mar 2014
Does a recent decision by Sirleaf signal a change of heart for a leader who has signed 30% of Liberia’s land over to foreign investors - with 1.5 million acres for palm oil companies?
Governing the land rush in Africa
- The Broker
- 21 Mar 2014
CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.
Three companies to be split-off from Lithuanian Invalda
- Baltic Course
- 21 Mar 2014
17 companies owned by NASDAQ traded Invalda LT, holding about 3,000 ha to be transferred to new company INVL Baltic Farmland.
African govts give away continent’s natural heritage, acre by acre
- East African
- 21 Mar 2014
A look at recent mega land deals in Africa reveals a trend dubbed a ‘dangerous grab’ of the resource upon which the continent’s poor people depend for survival.
Brazilian multinationals accused of 'slave labour' in Angola
- Africa Review
- 19 Mar 2014
Odebrecht notified by the Brazilian Public ministry of allegations of slave labour conditions at its 32,000 ha Biocom sugarcane operation.
“Global efforts to curb deforestation are failing”: The Palangka Raya declaration on deforestation and the rights of forest peoples
- REDD-Monitor
- 19 Mar 2014
Last week representatives of communities, indigenous peoples and NGOs met in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to discuss deforestation and the rights of forest peoples.
Fire destroys 200 hectares of Sime Darby's Liberia plantation
- Reuters
- 19 Mar 2014
Workers at the Bomi plantation, who requested anonymity, said the blaze was started by suspected arsonists and had blazed for about two weeks before being brought under control.
German agriculture boss endorses foreign investment in African farming
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 19 Mar 2014
Amatheon has already invested €30m in farming projects in Zambia and Uganda, and plans to spend an additional €350m in the coming two years in other African countries, such as Ghana and Mozambique.
PepsiCo enacting a new land policy
- AP
- 19 Mar 2014
PepsiCo enacting policy that will have zero tolerance for land grabs by agricultural suppliers.